Famous quotes containing the words united states, regiment, united and/or states:
“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1954)
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?”
—William Morris (1834–1896)
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)